The semiconductor industry has lobbied two presidential administrations to go easy with restrictions on selling cutting-edge computer chips to China. Jensen Huang, the chief executive… Read More »U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
Last summer, a federal judge, Amit P. Mehta, delivered a landmark ruling that found Google had illegally dominated online search. “Google is a monopolist, and… Read More »Will a Federal Judge Break Up Google?
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said on Tuesday that he would spend less time in Washington working for President Trump after the automaker reported a… Read More »Musk Says He Will Keep Pushing for Lower Tariffs as Tesla Profits Drop 71%
The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” a chance to have “an intimate private dinner” with President Trump at… Read More »Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin
European Union regulators said on Wednesday that Apple and Meta were the first companies to be penalized for violating a new law intended to increase… Read More »EU Fines Apple and Meta Total of $800 Million in First Use of Digital Competition Law
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday accused Meta of creating a monopoly that squelched competition by buying start-ups that stood in its way, kicking off… Read More »U.S. Argues Meta Built a Social Media Monopoly
After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the United States in 2022, officials ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an immigration surveillance… Read More »How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda
The Trump administration isn’t letting up on the tech giants. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off with Meta in court over claims… Read More »What to Know About Trump’s Antitrust Efforts Against Tech Giants
At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested… Read More »How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off
Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual’s personal life (bankruptcies,… Read More »How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
The Trump administration is disbanding a unit in the Justice Department that was responsible for investigating cryptocurrency crimes, criticizing the Biden administration as too aggressive… Read More »Justice Dept. Disbands Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit
President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the auto industry, prompting companies to… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories
The biggest technology companies and their chief executives donated millions to President Trump’s inauguration, hosted black-tie parties and dinners in his honor, and allowed him… Read More »Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
Last Wednesday, the Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, along with some of its U.S. investors and… Read More »How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs
On a recent Thursday, journalists cramming into the White House press briefing room saw an unfamiliar face in a rotating seat designated for new media.… Read More »How X Is Benefiting as Musk Advises Trump
For the last several months, Ken Harvey has been cultivating a budding side business for his Honda and Mazda dealerships in Northern California: selling used… Read More »Used Tesla Market Heats Up as Owners Sell to Protest Elon Musk
The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them… Read More »‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
Soon after the new administration arrived, things began to go missing from the White House website. They weren’t just the partisan policy platforms that typically… Read More »The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
President Trump on Friday granted TikTok another reprieve by announcing that he would extend the deadline for when the popular app had to make a… Read More »Trump Extends TikTok Deal Deadline, Delaying a Potential Ban
When President Trump announced sweeping tariffs this week, some of the biggest tech companies had obvious reasons for worry. Apple, Dell, Oracle — which rely… Read More »Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Rattling Even Meta
European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform X for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation,… Read More »E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
Ford Motor said on Thursday that it was lowering prices on most of its vehicles to the same levels it charges employees in a bid… Read More »Ford Offers Discounts on Cars and Trucks as Auto Tariffs Kick In
Tariffs on imported vehicles took effect Thursday, a policy that President Trump said would spur investments and jobs in the United States but that analysts… Read More »Auto Tariffs Take Effect, Putting Pressure on New Car Prices
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has lobbied President Trump and his aides to resolve a federal antitrust lawsuit against his company that is… Read More »Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Settle Antitrust Suit Against Meta
For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to have a good time. He spent as much as… Read More »How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul
President Trump plans to meet with top White House officials on Wednesday to discuss a proposal that could secure TikTok’s future in the United States,… Read More »Trump Set to Meet With Top Aides to Decide TikTok’s Fate
The White House has spent the week trying to downplay the revelation that top national security officials discussed plans for U.S. strikes in Yemen on… Read More »5 U.S. Voters Weigh In on the Signal Leak
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that he had opened an investigation into Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the… Read More »F.C.C. Chairman Orders Inquiry Into Disney’s D.E.I. Practices
Trevor Milton, who was convicted by a federal jury in 2022 of defrauding investors in the electric truck maker Nikola, has received a pardon from… Read More »Trump Pardons Trevor Milton, Founder of Bankrupt Truck Maker Nikola
Automakers can respond to President Trump’s new 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and parts in several ways. But all of them cost money and… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Leave Automakers With Tough, Expensive Choices